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Hi, i have 2 questions. The first question is. I booted my machine with my 98 boot disk, then proceeded to format my computer, after it was formated I went to run the 'setup' file from the WIN XP CD. I then recieved the error to the effect that the setup file could not be run in DOS?
So then how is it possible to do a full format then install win xp on a fresh machine?my second question is that I have a very very old sound card (sound blaster 16 from the early 90's late 80's) it is one of those video cards that is really long. Anyways, win XP does not detect it, how do i get win XP to detect my cound card? it was deteced when i had ME but not XP?
More importantly is the formatting question please help. Thank you
You can install from DOS by running d:\i386\winnt.exe (or whatever drive letter your cdrom is).
Don't know about the sound card but I wouldn't be surprised if it's not supported. Spend the $20 for a new one...
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You need to go to the "i386" directory on the CD and there execute "WINNT". That runs the instalation from DOS
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I was under the impression that you can't do a "clean" install of XP on a newly formatted HD. Thought you must "upgrade" from one of the supported apps. (win ME, 98, 2000) Am I wrong about this??
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xp will ask you if you want to do an upgrade or a clean install
you will also then be asked if you want to leave the hdd as it is, format it, or format in ntfs
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If you can access your BIOS at startup, check if you can set your PC to boot first from your CD (assuming also that your XP CD version is bootable). This is how I installed XP on a blank disk.
If your BIOS cannot boot from the CD or your XP CD is not a bootbale version then I guess the winnt.exe file mentioned above in the i386 folder will work too, although I didn't try it because I installed XP from booting directly from the CD.
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Yes, you can do a clean install of XP, donaldk. To do a clean install of XP, you could either download the boot disk files and boot from the floppy disks, or set the BIOS option to boot from the CDROM drive.
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I had to download the boot disks. The cd didnt boot even though I can boot to cd drive, and running Winnt caused the system to hang.
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hi,
XP setup says it cannot be run on DOS mode. well u just have to load the smartdrv.exe(i guess its found in the boot disk)andd then i think it can be run on dos.....i did it
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Where do i download the boot disk files? I boot my computer with my 98 boot disk. Is it possible to copy the smartdrv.exe from there, run it on the harddrive and then run winnt.exe?
Whenever I run the winnt EXE my system always hangs?
If it does proceed i get an error saying cannot find End User Agreement License.
How do i fix this, i know there are a couple things I can do?
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Nevermind. I found where to download the WIN XP boot disk files. 6 DISKS?! Whats up with that.
Anyways, so i have not made the 6 disks yet, but, i assume that I would put the first disk in to boot my computer up with, and I would then proceed to put in the other 6 disks.
After this, would I then go to the /i386 and run winnt?
and my system should not hang up anymore during the install because i booted with the win XP boot disks?
also, do the boot disks at the smartdrv.exe to the hardrive and run that?...
I was told that i need to get the smartdrv.exe to get the setup to run correctly.
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